This is an analysis of the poem The Wheels Of The System that begins with:
Where is God, whilst all around us sounds the jarring of the wheels,
When the cry of human anguish starwards thro’ His glory steals?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbb aaa ccc bbb bbb aaa ddd eee fff ddd ggg gggXaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110111010001 101010101010101 101011101010101 101111101011101 101110111010101 111111101010111 111011100010101 111110101010101 101010101110101 101010100111111 111010101110111 101010111010101 111011101110110 001010111010100 101010111010101 101010101010101 111111101010110 101010101011111 101111101010101 101010101010101 1010111000101001 111011101000111 111111101010101 011111110010001 111110101010101 100010101010101 101110100110011 1011111000101110 1010010101010101 111110101010101 111110101011101 100010101011101 101010101001101 101010100111111 1011101010010101 101100110001001 101011101110101 1011111010100101 001111101010101 101010101010101 10101001010101001 101101100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; wheels, to, star, of, beat, and, face, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words woe, and, where, thine are repeated.
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